asphodel

asphodel

(ăs`fədĕl'), name for plants of several genera of the family Lilaceae (lilylily,common name for the Liliaceae, a plant family numbering several thousand species of as many as 300 genera, widely distributed over the earth and particularly abundant in warm temperate and tropical regions......Click the link for more information. family). The true asphodels belong to two small and very similar genera (Asphodelus and Asphodeline) of the Mediterranean region and India. The showy flower spike of the former is usually white; of the latter, yellow. Both are stemless, hardy herbs. The asphodel (or king's spear) of the ancients, sacred to Persephone and associated with the fields of the dead, was Asphodeline lutea; the asphodel of the early French and English poets was a narcissus. The false asphodel is Tofieldia, represented in North America by T. glutinosa and a few other species. The turkeybeard (Xerophyllum asphodeloides) of the Atlantic coastal plains is also called mountain asphodel. Asphodels are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem)......Click the link for more information., class Liliopsida, order Liliales, family Liliaceae.

asphodel

1. any of various S European liliaceous plants of the genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, having clusters of white or yellow flowers

2. any of various other plants, such as the daffodil

3. an unidentified flower of Greek legend, probably a narcissus, said to cover the Elysian fields

While the creative possibilities contained in a feminist museology are explored most explicitly in Trilogy, the terms for this examination are earlier rehearsed in Asphodel, where private, embodied aesthetic responses provide a framework for moving beyond the museum's patriarchal organization.

Though the word is a corruption of affodil, for asphodel, its usage history links it to daffing, a term very much in use colloquially and in poetry in Wordsworth's time and long after, especially in the North.

HD's Her and Asphodel, which made her lesbianism explicit in a way that ran counter to old ideas about her as one of Pound's girls and/or a chiseled, chilled Hellenist: of course those texts had to wait for a lesbian-feminist criticism to appreciate them.

Once again many of the 12,000 year old Mires' glinting ponds are brimming with dragonflies, while plants such as bog asphodel, sundews and sphagnum moss have been boosted, along with the prospects for wading birds like dunlin and curlew.

Well, we meet some unlikely fairy-tale princesses in these novels: Princess Asphodel in The Unwritten Girl is a spitting, karate-chopping, stomach-punching princess enraged at the fact that her story did not play out the way it was supposed to; Princess Farren, in Grace and the Ice Prince, reverses a stereotype by leaving her kingdom to set out on a quest while her brother, the prince, stays behind to wait for help to arrive.

7) While the first poem is an early lyrical piece from Les Syrtes (1883-84), the other two come from Le Pelerin passionne (1886-90) and both contain mythical elements: one is a love poem centred on the mythical flower asphodel, the other a mythicized evocation of the beloved that makes her akin to a natural deity.

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